Musings on OWS...
In the Michael Moore movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" there is a scene where a white couple get evicted after foreclosure from her (the wife's) family's farm. She says something that betrays the nature of OWS in a profound way as including (if not consisting entirely of, at this point) a petit bourgeois/white privilege response. I deliberately avoided using "reaction" because I think that that is only one aspect of its potentiality, as I will explain. "I've lost a piece of my heritage...," she says. "Why do you do this to the hardworking people? Why do you take everything away from them? We're just middle-classed (sic, but this form has its own meaning) hardworking people trying to make a living, just trying to survive." It is important to understand that while she was enjoying her "heritage" (privilege), others were not; rather, they were working and suffering in support of such privilege. She obviously saw that